Trial to DigiZeitschriften

The Columbia University Libraries have trial access to DigiZeitschriften, a database featuring 200 German academic journals spanning 19 disciplines. The database has 500,000 articles, 16 million pages, and is growing constantly! The trial will run through November 30, 2014. Please forward questions or comments to Meredith Levin, Western European Humanities Librarian, at mjl2209@columbia.edu. […]

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Trial to OpenEdition Freemium for E-Books

The Columbia University Libraries currently have trial access to OpenEdition’s Freemium platform for e-books until December 31st, 2014. OpenEdition Freemium is a program for the development of open access academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences. This partnership aims to create an innovative and sustainable economic model. All income generated by the program is […]

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Database Trial: Loeb Classical Library

Please take the opportunity to view: Loeb Classical Library http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10941503 The digital Loeb Classical Library extends this mission into the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility, and presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature Access: […]

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New Database: PBS Video Collection

The PBS Video Collection assembles hundreds of documentary films and series from the Public Broadcasting Service, including Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, Odyssey, as well as films by Ken Burns and Michael Wood.   This streaming collection from Alexander Street Press includes full transcripts. […]

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925, part II was recently added to the Columbia University Libraries. This second part of the Science Technology and Medicine collection includes some three million pages of scientific material from the late seventeenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century, with a primary focus […]

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Database Trial: LGBT Thought and Culture

LGBT Thought and Culture is a new Alexander Street Press database which includes texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community. Our trial subscription to LGBT […]

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Database Trial: Numerique Premium

  We are currently trialing a new database of French e-books, Numérique Premium, through April 12, 2014. The collection contains nearly 850 full-text titles in a variety of fields, including history, religion, philosophy, politics, literature/literary theory, film, and architecture. Publishers include:  Belles Lettres, Canadian Scholars Press, CNRS éditions, ENS éditions, Gallimard,Flammarion, Nouveau Monde, Picard, Presses universitaires de […]

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